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No. 456,862, Patented July 2 8', 1891.

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No. 456,862. Patented July 28, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

CHARLES O. V'I`AI\l(1lEl\L[Al\T, OF FERN BANK, OHIO.

RECEIPT-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 456,862, dated July 28., 1891.

Application filed April l2, 1890- To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES O. TANGEMAN, acitizen of the United States, residing at Fern Bank,in the count-y of Hamilton and State ot' Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Receipt-Books, ot which the following is a specification.

My invention is especially applicable to conductors cash-fare receipts or tickets, but is adapted for any kind of receipt, check, or ticket which may be made out from prepared forms by detaching portions thereof. The conductors cash-fare receipts or checks and receipts, checks,or tickets for analogous purposes now in use generally require considerable writing or punching, or both, involving labor and loss ot' time.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and convenient book or pad of prepared forms which will enable the user to quickly and conveniently make out a check or receipt by detaching a portion oi' the form and to provide means whereby the detachment of a check or receipt will leave a record showing' the nat-ure of the check or the amount receipted for.

Myinvention consists in a novel slip for the check or receipt forms; in a novel arrangement of the matter upon the slips, and in the combination and arrangement of a series of these slips in book or pad form in such manner as to facilitate detachment of checks, receipts, or tickets of the desired kind ora-mount.

I have illustrated my invention as applied to conductors cash-fare checks or receipts.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of a book or pad of forms for cash-fare receipts embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front View of one of the form-slips; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section of one ot' the books; Fig. 4, a perspective view showing the method of detaching a receipt, and Fig'. 5 a front view showing a detached receipt and the stub or remainder of the form.

A A represent a series of slips of paper or other suitable material, each having a longitudinal slit a aand preferably having its ends intact. Upon each side of the slit is arranged a double series of characters representing' sums ot' money. Upon one side the sums shown range from fifty cents to ten dollars in multiples of fifty cents, both series or columns Serial No. 347,708. (No model.)

representing the same sums. .The amounts in one column are arranged sufliciently below the corresponding amounts in the other column to permit the uppermost to be removed by dividing the slip upon a line at right angles to its length Without removing the lower, which will be next in order in'its column, and upon the other side of the slit the sums shown range from one to forty-nine cents, the figures scribed. Any desired number of these formslips are tacked together at one end and provided With a bottom or backing B, ot' cardboard orother suitable material, and a iieXible top cover O, having at its free end a strip c, of card-board or other suitable material, serving to form a straight edge. In using the slips the straight edge is slipped down the form until it exposes the desired amount in the first column-three dollars, for instance. The user then takes hold of the free end of the fare-slip With one hand and, pressing the slip e against it with the other, tears the slip along the straight edge from the left side to the slit. The straight edge is then slipped up or down until the desired amount is exposed upon the other side of the slit-tWenty-ive cents, for instance-and that side of the slip is torn across along the straight edge, thus completely severing the slip. It will be seen that the left-hand column upon each side of the slit upon the detached receipt will give the amount of the receipt, while the righthand columns upon the stub or remainder of the slip Will also give the amount, thus enablingthe auditing oficer to readily check off the amounts from the stubs. It is obvious that a series of perforations may be used in place of the slit.

I am aware that a ticket has been provided with a longitudinal line of perforations and lines of perforations extending laterally from the longitudinal line, and to such construction I lay no claim. My plan diiers from this in that I dispense with the laterally-extending perforations, thereby obviating the liability of the accidental detachment of the eX- posed ends of the stub and detached receipt.

I claim as my inventionl. The receipt-book herein described and shown, comprising a series of form-slips having a'longitudinal slit and provided on one being' duplicated and arranged as above de- ICO Side of the slit with du plieate columns of Characters representing sums of money and upon the other side of the slit with duplicate eolumns of characters representing sums ol money of another value, the characters in one oolulnn being arranged one step below those 'of the corresponding e0lu1nn,said slips being bound together at one edge with a flexible cover having a straight edge adapted to be moved freely along the slips.

2. rlhe combination, with a pad or book of slps,of a llexible top 0r @over provided with a straight edge adapted to be freely moved along the slips throughout their lengths.

The combination of apad of Slitted forrn- I5 slips with a flexible top or Cover provided With a Straight edge adjustable upon the formslipsin the line of their length, substantially as and for the purpose Specified.

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Nitnessesz JAMES N. RAMSEY, AUGUST F. HERBSLEB. 

